Why practicing empathy is far from simple

Hi there, Steve Patterson here, host of The Debaters, the show where we tackle questions on the minds of Canadians like, should you move back in with your parents? Two of Canada's top comedians are bringing it home when they decide if living with family again is worth it or not. Who's right and who's wrong? Well, I guess it's all relative. So whether you're listening from your parents' basement or in your own place above ground, don't miss this week's episode of The Debaters wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nala Ayed. Leslie Jameson's budding career as a novelist looked very promising 15 years ago, but something seemed missing. Writing only felt good to me when it felt like throwing myself off a cliff.

So I decided to throw myself off a different cliff, the truth. So she shifted to writing nonfiction and teasing out the truths and meanings of her own life, her experiences, compulsions, desires, motivations, and connections to other people. There can hardly be a subject. where a writer is more exposed than herself, especially when she is determined to inspect herself unsparingly. The first few times I wrote personal essays, I wrote almost exclusively about the parts of myself I liked least, or the situations I most regretted.

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